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<h4 class="subsection">2.5.1 Initialization functions</h4>
<p>These are the functions that handle initializing a BFD.
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<h4 class="subsubsection">2.5.1.1 <code>bfd_init</code></h4>
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<pre class="example">unsigned int bfd_init (void);
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<p><strong>Description</strong><br>
This routine must be called before any other BFD function to
initialize magical internal data structures.
Returns a magic number, which may be used to check
that the bfd library is configured as expected by users.
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/* Value returned by bfd_init.  */

#define BFD_INIT_MAGIC (sizeof (struct bfd_section))
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